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Eric Banks is a former editor of Bookforum and a member of the National Book Critics Circle board of directors.

Gina Barreca is a professor of English and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut.

Mark Bauerlein is a professor of English at Emory University.

Marc Bousquet is the author of How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation.

Laurie Fendrich is a painter and director of the Comparative Arts and Culture Graduate Program at Hofstra University.

Dan Greenberg is a longtime observer of science policy and politics.

John L. Jackson Jr. is an associate professor of communication and anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Stan Katz directs the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School.

Guest blogger Michael Nelson, a former editor of The Washington Monthly, is a professor of political science at Rhodes College.

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg served for 30 years as university president, most recently at George Washington University.

Brainstorm Alumni

Guest blogger Marty Nemko is a career coach and higher-education policy writer who has been consultant to 15 college presidents.

Bob Zemsky serves as chairman of the Learning Alliance at the University of Pennsylvania.

October 11, 2008

Laurie Fendrich
Religious Interference in the American Election

For non-Catholics, the Vatican is no more and no less than a foreign country.

Stan Katz
Teaching the Crisis

What can colleges and universities do to engage students and faculty in thoughtful consideration of the current economic crisis? Have the social sciences drifted away from their commitment to building and maintaining democratic society? What can universities do in the short term in fulfilment of their social responsibilities.

John L. Jackson Jr.
'The Dirtiest Campaign in American History'

Another too-full week on the campaign trail.

October 10, 2008

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg
Under Pressure

While the ill fortunes of the global economy are reaching all aspects of campus life, the general economic model that propels the traditional university must be rethought. We cannot survive new threats with old techniques.

Eric Banks
Chicago and Nebraska Prize Their Nobel-Winning Clezio

Foresightful presses just happen to have excellent translations waiting for you.

Dan Greenberg
Nobel Hype

The Nobel Prizes fail to match the real workings of contemporary science and ignore major disciplines, including mathematics, engineering, the social sciences, and environmental studies.

October 9, 2008

Marc Bousquet
Higher Ed and the New New Deal?

The Dow plunges 40 percent in one year. You tell me: Which fella looks like Herbert Hoover and which one looks like FDR?

Laurie Fendrich
The Little Engine That Couldn't

A new computer program promises to give you your ideal beauty. Oops! It doesn’t work.

Michael Nelson
Is Hosting a Debate Worth It?

Beer flows at Belmont, in front of God and everybody else.

October 8, 2008

John L. Jackson Jr.
Fear of a Black President

Could an Obama victory signify, ironically, the electoral apogee of racial scapegoating?

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